What is the Lantern Festival called?

Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night "night", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival".

With the changes of society and times, the custom of Lantern Festival has changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China. The Lantern Festival is called the Lantern Festival only on the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon formed by early festivals.

After the Sui Dynasty, it was called Yuanxi or Yuanye. Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, but it was only in the late Tang Dynasty that it was occasionally called Yuanxiao. But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dengxi. In the Qing dynasty, it was also called the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is called Shangyuan Festival.

Shangyuan means the first full moon night of the New Year. The gods worshipped by Wudou Midao are Tianguan, Diguan and Shuiguan. It is said that the gods bless the people, the Diguan forgives sins, and the Shuiguan releases Eritrea. The three officials are matched with three yuan. It is said that Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the fifteenth day of the first month, Zhongyuan was born on the fifteenth day of July, and Xia Yuan was born on the fifteenth day of October.

The statement that the three officials are in charge of the three-dimensional day was first seen in the ancient Lingbao Sutra "The Three-dimensional Product of Lingbao in Tai Shang Huang Dong Xuan" at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Liu Song Dynasty. According to the "three officials" and the time of seasonal climate, the fifteenth day of the first month is designated as Shangyuan, the fifteenth day of July as Zhongyuan and the fifteenth day of October as Xia Yuan, which are collectively called Sanyuan. In this way, the fifteenth day of the first month is called Shangyuan Festival.